It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on October 05, 2011, 07:00:51 PM
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Today at age 56.
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Sad news folks..
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/05/apple-says-founder-steve-jobs-is-dead/ (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/05/apple-says-founder-steve-jobs-is-dead/)
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RIP Sorry you grew into Socialist.
May God have mercy on your soul.
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It is ironic that someone who used capitalism to its full extent to bring excellent products to market and build an empire of technology and wealth was, in the end, aligned with the redistributionists.
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I recently read a book about Pixar. He fronted the money for years for that company as it tried to find its way. Only a year before Toy Story came out he was trying to unload it. Then all of a sudden it seemed to occur to him what he had and he withdrew his search for a deal.
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It is ironic that someone who used capitalism to its full extent to bring excellent products to market and build an empire of technology and wealth was, in the end, aligned with the redistributionists.
Yup. Even bright innovators can have blindspots, even really large ones.
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The book characterized him as motivated by bringing personal computing to the masses no matter what which hints of socialism but he sure didn't give 'em away which smacks of capitalism.
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The Jury will be out for a long time as to whether his innovations were a blesing or a curse .
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It is ironic that someone who used capitalism to its full extent to bring excellent products to market and build an empire of technology and wealth was, in the end, aligned with the redistributionists.
I think there is something to be said about self-made men who amassed a fortune. Compare Jobs with Bill Gates in handling their guilt resulting from their wealth while others in the world suffer: Gates established a charity and gave to the poor: Jobs apparently just wanted to have the government take the wealth and distribute it to the poor. I do not know if Jobs was a religious man, but often times those who do not have a strong basis in Judeo-Christian values lean toward having the government do the distributing . . .
Just sayin.
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Even to this non fan boi, his innovations were blessings. Very few have brought so much to so many.
The reason I'm not the fan boi is that his business practices were a curse. The reason I have an IPad, love my IPad, but will move back to windows when the tech catches up is the proprietary crap Apple always imposes on it's stuff. Give me money Amazon, Give me money NetFlix, Gimme gimme gimme or I won't let you play with my toys.
He wasn't perfect, but he will be missed.
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It is ironic that someone who used capitalism to its full extent to bring excellent products to market and build an empire of technology and wealth was, in the end, aligned with the redistributionists.
I also find irony in the wall street protestors use of his products, which allows Apple to command a stock price between 300-400 bucks a share.
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When I got to work this morning, I had trouble starting my Mac Pro. It kept hanging at startup. It took me about five tries.
I thought Jobs had rigged a deadman switch somehow.
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When I got to work this morning, I had trouble starting my Mac Pro. It kept hanging at startup. It took me about five tries.
I thought Jobs had rigged a deadman switch somehow.
Tricksy, that thought ..........
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Thank goodness Planned Parenthood didn't get hold of them (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-goldman-refuses-raise-its-sp-1250-year-end-forecast#comment-2716902) Meanwhile, the most valuable technology company in the world was created by an acid-tripping, drop-out adopted son of a machinist.
Steven Paul Jobs (http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=162830)
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Yeah, who knows what PP is responsible for throwing away? Someone who could cure cancer? Someone who could unify relativity and quantum mechanics?
::gaah::